Essa

 is a character in Bastard's Wound.

Background
An older woman tends to a small but verdant patch of farm. Plump gourds and vegetables of vine and root vie for soil and light with a fig tree, its branches drooping with what passes for abundance in the Tiers. Essa was the mother to Irissa and Clea, two girls she raised on a romanticized vision of warfare against Azure and the Bastard Tier. She taught them how to handle weapons and fight effectively, while poisoning their hearts against Kyros. Now that the two foolish girls got themselves killed fighting against the Overlord in a vain insurgency, she quietly tends to her homestead (granted by Queen Vendrien Alanta) in her twilight years, accompanied by a pig she named Kyros the Overpig.

Quests

 * The Fire Inside: Essa is confronted at the end of the quest.